to be upset with Nursery for letting my 18 month old play out in this weather when she's been in hospital 3 times this year with pneumonia and breathing difficulties

I just went to pick my daughter up, it's really windy, cold and starting to rain and she was playing outside as were all the other children her age. She has been in hospital 3 times this year with pneumonia and breathing difficulties, in February,July and September. I wouldn't let her play out in this weather at home and I was so upset with the staff that I shouted at them. I wrote in her book that she has a hat, mittens and scarf but she didn't have any of them on, and I saw her fall over. I think the wind blew her over but she might have just fallen over.Am I being unreasonable? I know OFSTED require them to play outside and generally I don't mind her playing out. I just think it's a bit lacking in common sense to let her play out in this awful weather. The wind is so strong it's just blown an empty hanging basket all the way down our street.

I am amazed they had any children playing out if the weather is like it is here TBH!

I dont think her having been ill has anything to do with it though. DS has severe asthma and has had pneumonia a lot but I don't expect nursery to treat him differently (beyond making sure he takes his inhalers outside when they go)

I don't mind her playing out normally, in normal weather, as I said in my post but it was ( and is) blowing a gale and starting to rain and cold and I saw her fall over. The weather seems a bit extreme to be letting small children play out

A hat, mittens and scarf would have made no difference to a breathing condition.

I think yabu. Like you say, they are supposed to be able to go outside, and if your dd wanted to go out with other children, then you can't expect them to leave one member of staff inside for just one child, or expect them to tell her no.

I think you need to decide how differently you expect nursery to teach her. With winter coming up chances are they will be out playing in cold snowy weather. Do you want her to be kept back from her friends?

YABU for shouting at the staff, you don't know it was the wind that blew her over either, which seems to be one of your main problems, I'm sure if it was so strong children were getting blown away they would have taken them in. Not trying to be snarky OP but you didn't tell them she couldn't go out, that was their call then, you wouldn't have let her at home, but hey she's not at home is she?

It's blowing a gale here too but very mild. My DD is 2 and just getting over her third cold since Sept. I'd much prefer she had half an hour's running around in the garden time than them all coughing and spluttering over each other in the book corner.